Katherine Kurtz - In the King's Service

AURÉLIEN DE COURCY — son of Michon and husband of Sieffany MacAthan.

BARRETT DE LANEY — blind member of the Camberian Council; brother of Dominy de Laney.

BASIL OF CASTLEROO — a Mearan rebel.

BENJAMIN — servant in the employ of Seisyll Arilan.

BENROY, FATHER — weak-sighted scrivener and chaplain at Arc-en-Ciel.

BLAINE EMANUEL RICHARD CINHIL HALDANE, PRINCE — second son of Donal King of Gwynedd.

BLAISE OF TRURILL — a Mearan rebel.

BRENDAN, BROTHER — a dark at Rhemuth.

BRIGETTA DELACORTE, LADY — a junior lady-in-waiting to Queen Richeldis.

BRION DONAL CINHIL URIEN HALDANE, PRINCE — firstborn son and heir of King Donal.

BRONNA, LADY — a nurse to the royal children.

CAITRIN OF MEARAN, PRINCESS — daughter of Judhael of Meara, sister of Princess Onora.

*CASSIANUS DE LANEY — deceased older brother of Dominy and Barrett.

CERYS DEVANE — a student at Arc-en-Ciel, Alyce's original roommate, who later takes the veil as Sister Ins Cerys.

*CHARLAN MORGAN, SIR — former squire to Javan Haldane, treacherously killed with him; distant cousin of Sir Kenneth Morgan.

CLARICE, LADY — a lady-in-waiting to Queen Richeldis.

*COLMAN, KING — deceased King of Howicce and Llannedd, father of Queen Richeldis.

*CORBAN HOWELL, SIR — deceased Earl of Eastmarch.

CRAWFORD, MASTER — a guard at Rhemuth Castle.

*CYNFYN OF LENDOUR — deceased son of Keryell Earl of Lendour by his first marriage.

*DAMIAN CATHCART — a general/tactician of the past.

DEINOL HARTMANN, SIR — seneschal at Castle Cynfyn.

DELDOUR, LORD — a lord of Carthane, and one of the ringleaders of an anti-Deryni lay group centered on the ministry of Bishop Oliver de Nore; Father Septimus becomes his chaplain.

DENIT, FATHER — queen's chaplain in 1088.

DESMOND MACCARTNEY, BISHOP — Auxiliary Bishop of Rhemuth, brother of William.

DOMINY DE LANEY — sister of Barrett, member of the Camberian Council.

DONAL BLAINE AIDAN CINHIL HALDANE, KING — King of Gwynedd, Prince of Meara, and Lord of the Purple March.

DONNARD, MASTER — Duke Richard's battle-surgeon in 1086.

*DULCHESSE, QUEEN — childless first queen of Donal Haldane.

EDWARD — a carpenter at Rhemuth Castle.

EDWINA — Zoë's original roommate at Arc-en-Ciel, from Llannedd.

ELAINE MACINNIS, LADY — daughter of Manfred MacInnis and Signe Calder of Sheele; first wife of Jared Earl of Kierney, and mother of Kevin McLain.

EVAN SULLIVAN, SIR — human buyer of horses at manor of Arkella, north of Ratharkin. (Kindaloo is farther along.)

FARIAN, FATHER — a young dark at Rhemuth.

*FERROL HOWARD, SIR — slain 1025 at Killingford with King Urien and buried in crypt beneath Rhemuth Cathedral.

FRANCIS DELANEY — a Mearan rebel.

GEILL MORGAN — middle daughter of Sir Kenneth Morgan.

GERALD — a squire in the service of King Donal.

*GRANIA DE CORWYN, LADY — mother of Stevana and grandmother of Alyce, Marie, Ahern, and Vera.

GWENAËL, QUEEN — Queen of Llannedd and mother of Queen Richeldis.

HAMBERT HAMILTON, SIR — seneschal of Coroth.

IERY — Marie's roommate at Arc-en-Ciel.

ILLANN, KING — King of Howicce and, after the death of Queen Gwenaël, King of Llannedd; brother of Queen Richeldis.

IOLO MELANDRY, SIR — royal governor of Ratharkin, hanged by rebels.

IRIS ALTHEA, SISTER — mistress of scriptorium at Arc-en-Ciel.

IRIS ANTHONY, SISTER — professed nun at Arc-en-Ciel.

IRIS JESSILDE, SISTER — second daughter of Jessamy MacAthan, a novice at Arc-en-Ciel.

IRIS JUDIANA, MOTHER — Superior at Arc-en-Ciel; daughter of a Bremagni duke, educated at Rhaname.

IRIS MART, SISTER — a professed nun at Arc-en-Ciel.

IRIS ROSE, SISTER — a novice at Arc-en-Ciel.

ISAN FITZMARTIN — a page in the household of King Donal, son of Lady Megory Fitzmartin.

IVONE — a squire to King Donal in 1086.

JARED MCLAIN, EARL OF KIERNEY — only son of Andrew Duke of Cassan.

*JEPPE LASCELLES — one of the Gwynedd generals at Killingford.

JESIANA MACATHAN — a daughter of Jessamy and Sief MacAthan.

JESSAMY FERCH LEWYS MACATHAN — daughter of Lewys ap Norfal and Lady Ilde; wife of Sief MacAthan. Mother of four living daughters and Krispin MacAthan.

JESSILDE MACATHAN — see Iris Jessilde, sister.

JIRI REDFEARN, SIR — an aide to King Donal.

JODOTHA — a legendary Deryni of the seventh century.

*JOLYON OF MEARA, PRINCE — last sovereign Prince of Meara, husband of Urracca, father of Roisian and Annalind.

JOSQUIN GRAMERCY — a scout in the service of King Donal.

JOVETT CHANDOS, SIR — former squire in the service of Keryell Earl of Lendour, childhood friend of Alyce and Marie de Corwyn, secretly Deryni; knighted with Sé Trelawney at Twelfth Night court, 1082.

JUDHAEL, PRINCE — soi-distant Prince of Meara, first cousin to King Donal, son of Annalind, Princess of Meara.

KENNETH KAI MORGAN, SIR — an aide to King Donal; father of Zoë and two more daughters.

KEVIN DOUGLAS MCLAIN — infant son of Jared Earl of Kierney and Elaine MacInnis.

KHOREN VASTOUNI, PRINCE — member of the Camberian Council.

KRISPIN SIEF MACATHAN — son of Jessamy by King Donal, secretly sired to be a Deryni protector for the royal princes.

LAURELA HOWARD — «mother» of Vera (de Corwyn) Howard.

LEWYS AP NORFAL — infamous Deryni who defied the Camberian Council; father of Jessamy and Morian.

LUCIEN TALBOT, BARON — a baron of the Purple March, permanent royal governor of Ratharkin replacing the murdered Iolo Melandry.

MALGAR DE FIRENZA, FATHER — new chaplain and music master at Arc-en-Ciel after Septimus de Nore.

MARIE STEPHANIA DE CORWYN — younger daughter of Keryell Earl of Lendour and Stevana de Corwyn; twin to Ahern de Corwyn.

MEGORY FITZMARTIN — a principal lady-in-waiting to Queen Richeldis.

MICHAEL OF KHELDOUR, ARCHBISHOP — Archbishop of Valoret and Primate of All Gwynedd.

MICHAEL MACDONALD, SIR — husband of Princess Onora of Meara.

MICHENDRA VASTOUNI, PRINCESS — younger daughter of Prince Mikhail of Andelon.

MICHON DE COURCY, LORD — member of the Camberian Council.

MIKHAIL VASTOUNI, PRINCE — sovereign Prince of Andelon and nephew of Prince Khoren.

MIRANDA, LADY — a lady-in-waiting to Queen Richeldis.

MORIAN DU JOUX (AP LEWYS), SIR — brother of Jessamy, and Deryni.

MUNGO, FATHER — a chaplain in the royal household.

MURIELLA, LADY — a lady-in-waiting to Queen Richeldis.

NED — a gardener at Rhemuth Castle.

NIDIAN AP PEDR — a citizen of Ratharkin.

NIGEL CLUIM GWYDION RHYS HALDANE, PRINCE — son of King Donal and Queen Richeldis.

NIMUR FURSTÁN — King of Torenth.

*NORFAL — a Deryni master.

OÍSIN ADAIR — a horse breeder, member of the Camberian Council.

OLIVER DE NORE, BISHOP — itinerant bishop in Carthane, elder brother of Septimus.

ONORA, PRINCESS — daughter of Judhael of Meara, granddaughter of Annalind of Meara.

ORBAN HOWARD, SIR — «father» of Vera (de Corwyn) Howard.

ORIN — great Deryni adept and mystic of the seventh century.

PASCHAL DIDIER, FATHER — Deryni priest from Bremagne, chaplain to Keryell Earl of Lendour and tutor to Alyce and Ahern (and Vera Howard). Trained at Nur Sayyid and the R'Kassan seminary at Rhaname.

PATRICK CORRIGAN, BISHOP — newly consecrated itinerant bishop.

RANNULF, SIR — along on the hunt at Martinmas.

RICHARD BEARAND RHUPERT CINHIL HALDANE, PRINCE — unmarried half-brother of King Donal, Duke of Carthmoor.

RICHELDIS, QUEEN — second wife of King Donal and mother of his children, a princess of Howicce and Llannedd.